SIMD Status?

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Tue Mar 4 22:57:10 PST 2008


trevorparscal wrote:
> I've read everything I can about proposals and ideas for adding some sort of
> SIMD capability to D, and I have not seen any conclusion. I am NOT trying to
> revamp the discussion of how or why - only query the status of 2 things...
> 
> 1. Currently there's no way to align data on the stack, making movaps
> difficult/impossible to use properly. Is there where D still stands?

Yes.

> 2. Has there been any consensus on if or how Walter may or may not integrate
> SIMD capability into the language?

There always seems to be something more important. It's also a difficult 
thing to implement.

> Obviously we have all seen the many (some very convincing) proposals,
> but whats the status?
> 
> - Trevor



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